SportsDay Live: Tuesday January 22, 2013

MICHAEL CLARKE is in severe doubt for Wednesday's one-day international series finale against Sri Lanka in Hobart after rolling his ankle. Read full report herePhoto: Brendan Esposito

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4:11pm on 22 Jan 2013

Stumps. That's it for today. Join us again tomorrow morning for more sports news, lists and "On this days". We will have regular updates from Tour Down Under and Australian Open before handing over to James "Richie" Polson for live commentary of the one-day international between Australia and Sri Lanka.

4:07pm on 22 Jan 2013

Top 10 controversy: Less than a week after James Polson's baffling omission of What Nationality is Les Murray by TISM in Wednesday's top ten sports music cameos, Paul Suttor has come up with another stinker in today's top ten.

While there's no denying the quality of Happy Gilmore and White Men Can't Jump, where is perhaps the greatest sports comedy of all, BASEketball, Fever Pitch and Mike Bassett England Manager are worthy candidates but sadly did not make the cut.

3:59pm on 22 Jan 2013

The Top 10. Today we are counting down the top 10 best sports comedy movies. Sun-Herald sports editor Paul Suttor has loaded up on popcorn and compiled his list of the sporting flicks packed with the most laughs.Let us know what you think should or shouldn’t be on the list via the comments section on the blog or via @smhsport on Twitter.

1 The Club (1980) Collingwood fans, not renowned for self-deprecating humour, must surely see the funny side of this David Williamson play turned into a movie starring Australian icons Graham Kennedy and Jack Thompson. The boardroom politics of the famous old club are simply hilarious because the scenes could apply to many Australian sports teams at all levels. Old Jock, the egomaniacal club legend full of bluff and bluster is the star of the show particularly when he’s led astray by the team’s overpaid young star.

3:58pm on 22 Jan 2013

Tennis. Fourth seed David Ferrer has fought back to win his Australian Open quarter-final over fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 4-6 4-6 7-5 7-6 6-2

3:58pm on 22 Jan 2013

Cycling: More on German sprint ace Andre Greipel's win at the 12th Tour Down Under with a blistering finish in stage one.

The Top 10. Today we are counting down the top 10 best sports comedy movies. Sun-Herald sports editor Paul Suttor has loaded up on popcorn and compiled his list of the sporting flicks packed with the most laughs.Let us know what you think should or shouldn’t be on the list via the comments section on the blog or via @smhsport on Twitter.

2 Caddyshack (1980) Golf is simply a sport crying out to be parodied, even if you only take into account the fashion sense of the participants. Chevy Chase & Bill Murray run amok and while his brand of humour didn’t suit everybody, Rodney Dangerfield was in his element lampooning the snobs of Bushwood Country Club. Which hacker hasn’t tried to ‘‘be the ball’’ and do Chevy’s nananananaaaa sound effect while practising a putt?

3:31pm on 22 Jan 2013

Top ten. One good turn deserves another. Time for No.3 on our list of the best sports comedy movies as chosen by Sun-Herald sports editor Paul Suttor. Let us know what you think should or shouldn’t be on the list via the comments section on the blog or via @smhsport on Twitter.

No.3: Happy Gilmore (1996) Juvenile? Yes. Over the tip? Absolutely. Hilarious? Without a doubt. Before Adam Sandler became a caricature of himself, he made this surprise hit which combined an original storyline with just enough pathos to drown out the cringeworthy moments. But any time you have veteran game show host Bob Barker in a fist fight which ends up with Sandler in a pond is comedy gold.

3:28pm on 22 Jan 2013

Racing. In case you missed it before, here's Black Caviar's jump-out at Sandown this morning with some commentary from Fairfax racing writer Michael Sharkie. It was the first competitive ride for Peter Moody's champion mare since her nailbiting victory in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.

3:23pm on 22 Jan 2013

Tennis. And David Ferrer takes the fourth set on the tie-break! He's certainly doing it the hard way today...

3:17pm on 22 Jan 2013

Tennis. Ferrer-Almagro is into a fourth-set tie-breaker... do or do time for the fourth seed.

Top ten. We're counting down the top 10 best sports comedy movies. Sun-Herald sports editor Paul Suttor has loaded up on popcorn and compiled his list of the sporting flicks packed with the most laughs.Let us know what you think should or shouldn’t be on the list via the comments section on the blog or via @smhsport on Twitter.

No.4. White Men Can’t Jump (1992). Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson take trash-talking to a new level. Despite its brash exterior, this movie had a relatively dark edge & not the happy ending you’d expect. No basketballer in the 1990s who saw this movie could deny using at least one of Woody or Wesley’s razor-sharp sledges to put off an opponent.

3:09pm on 22 Jan 2013

Cycling. Who said I was any good at tipping? No one will now. Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) has won the first stage of the Tour Down Under from Prospect to Lobethal with a superb sprint finish. Second and almost six lengths behind was Frenchman Arnaud Demare (FDJ) followed by Australian Mark Renshaw (Blanco). That's it from the Adelaide Hills ... Tomorrow will be good - Corkscrew hill near finish will give a good pointer as to who might win overall. On yer bike!

3:02pm on 22 Jan 2013

AFL. Then there were two... Greater Western Sydney have pruned back their leadership group following Luke Power’s retirement, with Callan Ward and Phil Davis given the responsibility of the co-captaincy this year. Tom Scully has been promoted to vice-captain. Enlarged leadership teams have become the norm in AFL - Sydney snared the 2012 premiership with a nine-man group - while the trend may be spreading to the NRL after Canberra unveiled an eight-strong leadership corps for the coming season.

"They'll be surrounded by other leaders on the ground and off the ground ... there’s plenty of leaders at the club," said Giants coaching guru Kevin Sheedy. "But in the three names, we’ve probably gone back to where we started from in the VFL."

2:55pm on 22 Jan 2013

Tennis. Seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga meets Roger Federer as a rank outsider in the quarter-finals tomorrow, and the Frenchman has vowed to "unrespect" his masterful opponent...

"I've got a lot of respect for him. He's just an incredible tennis player, an example for many people. I have respect for him outside of the court and, on the court, I have to - how you say - unrespect him? Because if you respect him too much, then for sure you lose."

Ski Jumping. Ok, hands up: who was secretly hoping to see Daiki Ito go flying off the end of the ramp in that last clip?

2:44pm on 22 Jan 2013

Boxing. Fairfax snapper Anthony Johnson was out at the Anthony Mundine training session this morning. Here's a nice frame of The Man cooling down after a sparring sesh. Mundine meets Daniel Geale in a showdown for the IBF world middleweight title a week tomorrow.

Hard yards ... Anthony Mundine. Photo: Anthony Johnson

2:36pm on 22 Jan 2013

Ski Jumping. Now for something completely different. Japan's Daiki Ito has lodged a contender for the worst ski jump of all time. Check out his effort below:

2:34pm on 22 Jan 2013

Tennis. SportsDay oracle Bruce Sessle is tipping Roger Federer to take the men's title in the Australian Open. TAB Sportsbet have the Swiss master third favourite at $3.75, with Novak Djokovic still the $2.15 favourite despite his energy-sapping five-set win over Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray a $3.50 chance.

2:29pm on 22 Jan 2013

Basketball. The Sydney Kings have been given a boost for Thursday night's clash with the NZ Breakers in Auckland with co-captain James Harvey likely to make an early return from his broken arm. Harvey is travelling with the team and will probably have limited minutes but the Kings will need all hands on deck across the Tasman against the NBL's competition leaders.